The company, founded in 1945, has been worn by number of celebrities, world leaders and even fictitious heroes over the years, including Clark Gable, Rock Hudson the James Bond character, Vladimir Putin and Rudolph Giuliani.
This, as much as her longing for concealment, fed her empathy with Hollywood's misfits, to whom she offered simple, common kindness: Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Michael Jackson, the homosexuals-in-hiding and would-be children whose secrets she heard and kept.